The Sceptical Reading Group

9 members Latest Activity: Jun 3

A reading group interested in social and cultural critique with a healthy dose of incredulity, doubt and dissent.

The first text being…

Society of the Spectacle

16 members Latest Activity: Oct 13, 2012

New reading group starting next term Oct 2011 of The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord...

Critical Theory Reading Group

3 members Latest Activity: Nov 30, 2012

Continental Philosophy Reading Group

11 members Latest Activity: Mar 1

Run by English Literature / Art History students, meeting one Friday per month. Our first session (5th October, 12-1.30pm in the Keynes Library)…

Deleuze - Cinema 2

6 members Latest Activity: Oct 25, 2011

Reading Group for Deleuze's "Cinema 2: The Time-Image"

Filth Reading Group

19 members Latest Activity: Apr 16

This is a monthly reading group for anyone interested in ideas of 'filth.' The focus will generally be on texts that address the theme, but…

Phenomenology Reading Group

25 members Latest Activity: Mar 13

We have now (finally) finished reading Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception, and will not be meeting again. Many thanks to…

A Queer Turn [AQT]

3 members Latest Activity: Jun 3

Art Writing Writing Art

3 members Latest Activity: Jun 9

Art Writing Writing Art, founded in 2012 at the University of Bristol, is a discussion and research group set up to…

Literature and Visual Cultures

13 members Latest Activity: Jun 9

A student-led research seminar focussing on the relationship between literature and the visual, with a focus from 19th century to contemporary. …

Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy Reading Group

1 member Latest Activity: Mar 2

The launch of a new group reading "A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy" by Karl Marx, published in 1859.…

Feminist Linguistics Discussion Group

4 members Latest Activity: Dec 12, 2012

This monthly discussion group is…

PhD Cohort 2012

21 members Latest Activity: Jun 3

A group for the 2012 PhD student cohort to connect, discuss new ideas, support each other, and touch base. 

Memory and Violence

12 members Latest Activity: Mar 21

The Memory and Violence working group is a new interdisciplinary group, open to all with an interest in the relationships between collective…

AU HASARD - CINE CLUB

16 members Latest Activity: Nov 24, 2012

AU HASARD

Au Hasard is a new cine-club in London. Our first season of screenings are thematic double-bills with a political…

Fragments

26 members Latest Activity: Mar 25

This is a group for anyone studying an element, a piece, a bit, a portion, something not quite intact, or part of a larger whole. Anyone with an…

The short fiction of J.G. Ballard

9 members Latest Activity: Mar 7, 2012 This is a group that will meet once a month (probably on a Monday) to discuss short stories by J.G. Ballard. Suggestions on relevant theory welcome…

MUSIC AND ART CRITICISM

4 members Latest Activity: Dec 12, 2012

FOUCAULT READING GROUP

37 members Latest Activity: May 2

For anyone interested in reading and discussing the works of Michel Foucault. We plan to start with The Archaeology of Knowledge in…

RUBBISH

34 members Latest Activity: Oct 21, 2011

Rubbish is coming to Birkbeck this summer: a series of events on reading the matter and metaphors of waste and value in and…